Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 20:06 -0500 schrieb Matthew Saltzman: > The quick and dirty way to install Sun's Java is to install Sun's 1.4.2 > RPM and install the JPackage java-1.4.2-sun-compat RPM. The compat RPM > installs all the JPackage links and directs them to the locations of the > Sun files. The OP wished to use the most recent Java release for which a jpackage rpm is not available yet. I'm not shure weather the compatibility rpm for an older version will work with it. At a minimum the links must be adjusted. > The best way is to install the JPackage SRPM, copy Sun's tarball (don't > install it) and build the RPMs for yourself. You'll want the updated > jpackage-utils for this. You are right, of course! But they are not available yet for the most recent release. Peter
